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SWRT 309 | Immigrant Stories & Historical Events – Fiction with Grishma Shah

Nov 7, 2024

Join us for an insightful episode of Story Works Round Table as we welcome Grishma Shah. Grishma shares the journey of crafting her novel, Anagram Destiny. Inspired by her upbringing as the daughter of Indian immigrants and her expertise in culture and globalization, it’s a reverse immigration story that explores the Indian American dream, cultural shifts, and the power of storytelling. Discover how personal experiences and historical events like 9/11 shape her narrative, and why fiction can resonate deeper than nonfiction. Don’t miss this compelling conversation about identity, home, and the universal themes of love and loss.

SWRT 308 | Authors Talk Ghost Stories

Oct 24, 2024

Just in time for Halloween, the Story Works Round Table brings you a special episode featuring five incredible authors of ghost stories: Gabi Coatsworth, Paulette Kennedy, Jan Heidrich-Rice, Sandra Young, and Alida Winternheimer. Dive into the art of crafting paranormal tales, explore the inspiration behind these haunting narratives, and learn about the unique rules that govern their ghostly worlds. Plus, discover their upcoming events and workshops perfect for getting your literary boo on this spooky season. Don’t miss out on this fascinating conversation—listen now!

SWRT 141 | Workshopping Act I

Jan 23, 2020

What can workshopping your novel with an editor do for you as a writer? What are Kathryn’s issues with Act One? And what does your reader truly need to know about your world and characters? Make sure you zoom out and look at the big picture of what you are trying to achieve with Act One.

SWRT 140 | Writing Book Ads Copy with Bryan Cohen

Jan 16, 2020

How is ad writing different from your book description? How do you avoid creating ad copy that is all the same? How do you get to a really good ad sentence? And how do you convey genre in one sentence?

SWRT 139 | The Craft of Writing Book Copy with Bryan Cohen

Jan 9, 2020

Why should author’s know how to craft copy for their book? What are the fundamentals? How do you find the number one conflict in your book? And then how do you make it exciting? What is the structure of a book blurb? And where do most author’s run into problems?

SWRT 138 | Writing – Life Balance, part 2

Jan 2, 2020

How can you reset your creative motivation when it has fallen to the wayside? How can you balance your life to give yourself the most willpower for your creative pursuits? And where do you need to re-evaluate your life and your habits? In the end, it’s all about finding the balance that works for you, your life, and your creative goals!

SWRT 137 | Writing – Life Balance

Dec 19, 2019

How did 2019 go in our writing lives? And what lessons have we learned about how we have balanced, or failed to balance, our writing with our life? How can you shift your perspective from the outputs to the inputs? And how can we achieve that balance where our lives feed our creativity, and our creativity our lives?

SWRT 136 | Refilling the Creative Well with Alina Sayre, part 2

Dec 12, 2019

Has Alina refilled her creative well, or recharged her creative batteries? What would she advise those of us who need to find that balance in our lives? How do we write out of our own experiences? And how do we go out and get more of those experiences?

SWRT 135 | Refilling the Creative Well with Alina Sayre

Dec 5, 2019

How did finishing a project bring Alina to a realization about herself, and her life outside of her author career? What experiences did she undertake in order to refill her creative well? And how does working on a project outside of what you previously finished help broaden your artistic horizons? We finish with a poem from Alina’s new book, Fire by Night.

SWRT 134 | The Art of Death, part 2

Nov 28, 2019

How will your personal history affect how you portray death? What about if you have never experienced anything as tragic as your character is experiencing? How can you use the element of surprise to turn a story on a death? And how should you use death in Act two? We talk about the problem of proximity in death, and whether or not death has genre conventions. In the end, we all agree that this is a great book, if you are ready to really sit and think about death!

SWRT 133 | The Art of Death, part 1

Nov 21, 2019

What was our experience with The Art of Death? What were our biggest takeaways? What makes death meaningful for the story? And what tools should you bring to write a death well? How can we make them authentic? And what is the power of the point of view?

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